Concretion: assumption-based understanding

  • Authors:
  • Paul S. Jacobs

  • Affiliations:
  • GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY

  • Venue:
  • COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A language understanding program must produce as precise a meaning representation as possible from a linguistic input. CONCRETION is the process of developing a specific interpretation by combining various levels of conceptual information. This process represents an assumption-based method of language interpretation, and departs from the traditional approach of treating multiple interpretations as independent. Concretion allows the language analyzer to develop a sufficiently specific representation without excessive computation or brittle interpretation rules.